William sochefsky



U ITED STATES PATENT QFFICEO WILLIAM SOOHEFSKY, or NEW YORK, n. Y.

DECORATING WALL-HANGINGS AND OTHER FABRICS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,508, dated February 8, 1887.

(-No specimens.)

, textile materialsuch as muslin, cloth, or

.of the paper.

silk-with a sizing of isinglass or gelatine, then to emboss the sized fabric, then to coat the embossed fabric with a solution of shellac,

and, finally, to paint the smooth surface with coloring-matters, as in my Letters Patent No.

320,409, dated June 16, 1885, and No. 334,299, dated January 12, 1886. To paint a previously-embossed fabric, as in my aforesaid patents, requires considerable time, skill, labor, and consequently expense, and to avoid these objections, reduce the cost of manufacturing this class of decorated fabrics, fill the pores of the textile material with the colored paint, fill up inequalities existing in the facing, and to unite the facing and backing by a novel paste, are the objects of'my present invention, which I accomplish in the manner and by the means hereinafter described and claimed.

In carrying out my present invention I take soft thick paper, by preference unsized paper, and cover the same on one or both sides-with a textile fabric by means of paste or other suitable adhesive material, which is mixed with a softening substance, such as oil or other fatty matter, or glycerine or sirup. By these means a heavy pliable material is obtained, and in case extra strength is required some thick textile fabric may be employed in place The materialthus prepared is painted, printed, or otherwise decorated in various colors, oil-colors being used by preference, and it is then stamped or embossed with engraved plates or rollers, By applying the colors to' the textile facing of the material the pores of said textile facing are filled up, the inequalities existing therein are covered, and, if different colors are applied to correspond to the designs contained in the embossing dies or rollers, very beautiful effects can be produced with comparatively little expense or trouble, whereas the operation of coloring the previously-embossed surface requires considerable skill and much time. If desired, some delicate colors may be applied .after embossing.

My new fabric, being pliable, can be readily wound round columns or applied to other curved surfaces, and if the fabric is provided with a textile backing it can be readily ap plied to walls or other surfaces, and it will adhere thereto with great tenacity.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

g The method herein described of making a fabric decorated in various colors, which consists in uniting a textile facing directly to a backing through the medium of a paste containing oil or other softening material to render the fabric pliable, then decorating the facing with various colors, and then embossing the variously-colored surface to 'cause the colors to fill the pores of the textile covering, and to cover inequalities that may exist therein, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM SOOHEFSKY. EL. s.]

\Vitnesses:

' W. HAUFF,

E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

